Is there a way to take into account of vehicle direction when calculating route?

HuyHo

We are playing around with routing in our application.  Our requirement is to calculate route from the vehicle current location to a destination.  The problem we are facing is if our vehicle is travelling in a specific direction on the road, we'd prefer to have a direction that would not force the vehicle to make a U-turn.  Is there a way to do this?  We've review the RouteParameters class and there doesn't appear to be anything to help with this issue.

Thanks.

AndySmith

I don't believe the software has a concept of a "moving" vehicle or direction of travel. The direction of travel is based solely upon the network attributes.

i.e. if you place the start point on a section of network that allows travel in both directions, then it will travel the quickest way to the destination from that point, albeit, you vehicle may be pointing /travelling the other way. If your start point is on a section of network that is one-way, then it will force the route along the network in that direction until it arrives at a junction so that it can turn.

I therefore think that you will need to configure you network to have separate network sections limiting travel in one direction only, i.e. each road will have two sections, e.g. north and south bound travel, so that you can start on the correct section.